We’ve promoted managers who can’t help their teams grow. It’s time to put expertise back at the center of leadership.

Team Topologies is a framework for organizing teams to deliver value efficiently, but it can seem tailored for large organizations. This guide shows how small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) can adopt it using the Hat Model—where team members wear multiple “hats” depending on the task. Learn how to structure Stream-Aligned, Platform, Enabling, and Complicated Subsystem roles, manage cognitive load, and grow responsibilities as your company scales.

Explore the six-stage product management maturity model, from feature factory to product operations. Learn how to scale your organization, improve customer outcomes, and implement modern product ops practices.

Your agile process might just be a waterfall in disguise. Discover how to move beyond predicting schedules and lead with evidence-based experiments that reduce uncertainty.

Learn why good intentions lead to bad outcomes when control replaces trust. A hard lesson on how bureaucracy kills innovation and why autonomy is the only path to sustainable growth.

Is your powerful vision becoming a prison for your team? This is a story about how a leader's need to control every detail can destroy motivation and what true leadership looks like.